The Price of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8941052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerome Greenfield (0000-0002-9929-7857, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 537-569 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-8552447 |
| OpenAlex | W3088609686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
Much of the nature of French imperialism in Algeria can be explained through an analysis of its financial underpinnings, a subject generally neglected by historians. This article recounts the creation of a colonial fiscal system during the period of the French conquest of Algeria from the 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that money played a decisive role in shaping relations between metropolitan officials and the military leaders who comprised the “men on the spot.” While the French presence in Algeria was to an extent rationalized in terms of imparting “civilization,” the need for money exacerbated the army's tendency to rule through violence. This brutality alienated metropolitan elites, pushing the government to exert greater control over Algerian affairs. Here, money provided crucial leverage, given Algeria's financial dependence on the metropole. In this manner, finance decisively shaped the formation of the French state in Algeria. Souvent négligée par les historiens, l'étude des finances est essentielle pour comprendre l'impérialisme français en Algérie. Cet article traite de l'essor du système fiscal colonial pendant la conquête de l'Algérie. Il souligne le rôle que l'argent a joué dans les relations entre les fonctionnaires métropolitains et les commandants de l'armée en Afrique, « les hommes sur place ». Alors que la présence française en Algérie était en partie justifiée par le projet de « civilisation », les besoins financiers ont exacerbé la disposition de l'armée à gouverner par la violence. Cette brutalité a désenchanté les élites métropolitaines, encourageant le gouvernement à exercer plus de contrôle en Algérie, et pour cela l'argent était indispensable, compte tenu de la dépendance financière de la colonie sur la métropole. Les finances ont donc exercé une influence décisive sur le développement de l'Etat français en Algérie
Art · Civilization · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Humanities · Political science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
A mission to civilize
A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony
A History of Algeria
The Art of Not Being Governed
Histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine - 2
Imperial Identities
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
La ville d’Alger vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle
A Treatise on Political Economy in 1823
Les Batailles de l'impôt
Of Rule and Revenue
Saint-Simonians in Nineteenth-Century France. From Free Love to Algeria
The Parisian Poor and the Colonization of Algeria During the Second Republic
Histoire de l'Algerie Contemporaine, Vol. 2
Colonial Violence
Elites and their Representation
Land Policy in Colonial Algeria
Qaids, Captains, and Colons
The Origins of the Interventionist State in France, 1830–1870
Coloniser, exterminer
Taxing Colonial Africa
Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons From Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, C. 1880–1940
Genocide in nineteenth-century Algeria
A Turn to Empire
The Black Man's Burden
Les colons de 1848 en Algérie
The 1848 Revolutions and the British Empire
Rebel and Saint
Les plaisirs du collectionneur
Finances publiques et conquête coloniale
L'Algérie algérienne' de Napoléon III à de Gaulle
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |